Close encounters of the third kind:

In the well-known UFO classification proposed by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, astronomer and USAF UFO consultant, a close encounter of the third kind is a meeting between human beings and beings likely to be not from this earth, in association with a UFO observation. Here is information on such events.

1977. During 4 months, UFOs of all sizes and shapes are seen every day over several small cities. The UFOs direct strange rays at houses and people. 35 people are wounded. Most of them evacuate the area. The army intervenes. But you have probably never heard of it.

Pascagoula, Mississippi, 1973: Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker reported that three strange beings floated them into their spacecraft near the Pascagoula river in Mississippi, USA. The case received national attention, is still quite controversial, but might well be exactly what the witnesses said it was.

Lonnie Zamora worked as a sergeant at the Socorro Police Department. Friday April 24, 1964, he witnessed the landing of a UFO near Socorro in New Mexico. The investigation was lead by Dr J. Allen Hynek with the FBI.

July 1959, in Papua-New Guinea, after several luminous objects were seen, one of them hovers near Father Gill's mission for hours. When the witnesses wave their arms at the "men" on the craft's deck, they wave back.

August 21, 1955, in Kelly near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, a farmer family gets no sleep: a saucer lands, and little being attack the farm all night long. Gunshots are ineffective against the aliens. Where they owls?